CES has received enquiries for equipment that will support people with vision impairments. We do not believe we are qualified to advise on this and would suggest you direct any carer who makes such an enquiry, to 4Sight for advice and guidance.

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Vandu Language Services (VLS) are updating their telephone interpreting cancellation policy. From the 4th December 2019, they will be invoicing for late cancellations as per the face to face interpreting cancellation policy. To clarify, customers will be charged for the requested call duration time if the booking is cancelled within […]

The staff forum met on Wednesday 30 October to look at the topic of Learning and Development, consider possible additional questions for the next staff survey, follow up actions from the last meeting and staff suggestions. The following attended; Astrid Stubbs, Bernie Butler, Julia Murray Logue, Jo Best, Laura King, […]

Here is the latest from the comms team, so everyone knows what to expect…

Comms team

As you all know, Alan left CSWS on Friday, off to pastures new at Brighton and Hove City Council, in which I am sure he will do a fantastic job. As a result, it leaves Adeelah […]

Roger Bateman is pleased to confirm that we have now signed on the dotted line (thank you Sonia) and the project is now officially underway with Cloud9. We had our project kick-off meeting with them they have assigned their internal resources and provided a schedule to completion. They have created […]

Nathalie Dick Carer Wellbeing Worker supporting people living with and caring for an autistic adult, has worked with Alan to update the ASC webpage.

ASC crosses into lots of other carer categories most noticeably Mental health, Drugs and Alcohol, and YAC, but also for everyone on Response line. The page has […]

We are at the start of a journey in developing a new Carers Support Website. To ensure we are ‘building’ the new site with our carers at the heart, we are hosting a focus group to collate their views and requirements. As staff extensively use the website too, we (the […]

Look out for Alcohol  Awareness week, 11^th-19^th November.

 Our Drugs and Alcohol Carer Wellbeing Workers, Kelly and Iona, and our great volunteers,  will be out and about in the community and in our offices.  Keep an eye out for beer goggles to try and simple checks for you to use for […]

Following last month’s engagement with Cloud 9, our preferred solution provider, we have all but completed the follow up work to refine the specification, agree a price and sign the contract. It has taken Rachael and I several iterations to agree the specification. Subject to Steering Committe sign-off on the […]